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Findings on

Observation (AEIOU) Framework


during FDP 16th – 18th February, 2015 @
GIC-GTU

Observations for theme

“Pedestrian Safety”
Strategy and preparation

• Distribution of work responsibility


• Initial brainstorming
• Identification – General Impressions
Activities
Someone (User) is involved…
- How?
- What actually is going on?
- Why it is going on?
- How it is going on?
- What is involved?
Activities
• General impressions / Observations Sketch/ Photo –
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Use of mobile
Surfing / listening music
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Watching for signal
Finding locations
Summary of activities
- Talking - Eating food
- Waiting for transportation - Walking ‘off-road’
- Crossing roads - Helping elder citizens
- Reading news papers - Advertisement (watching/ listening)
- Parking “on–footpath”

• Elements, Features and Special Notes


- Mobile
- Headphones
- Vehicles (personal/ private)
- Bag – luggage
- Dustbins
- Booths
- Bottles
- Signal poles
- Eateries/ stalls
- Zebra-crossing
- Helping aid – stick
- Hoardings
- Loud speakers
Environments – The Surroundings…
- Where (Activity) is happening?
- What are circumstances?
- Time effects, any? Why variations
- Seasonal effects, any? Or
- Person effects, any? What versions
- Operational effects, any?
What governs…?
Environment
• General impressions / Observations Floor plan
• (Style, materials & atmosphere)
- Weather (Sunny/ Fog/ Rainy/ Cloudy) - Bad road conditions
- Crowd - High wind
- Day/ Night - Encroached road space
- Traffic jams - Trees/ Plants
- Noisy
- Urban/ rural
- With or without light

• Elements, Features and Special Notes


- Light poles
- Traffic signal system
- Traffic police Scene
- Noise barriers
- Footpath / dedicated pedestrian
facility
- Tree guard (nets)
Interactions
- Who are involved? Why? How?
- What (users) are holding/ operating/ using…
Human Extensions
- How the contacts are in action?
- Action vs. Reaction…
Interactions
• General impressions / Observations Scene of interaction
• (Who is interacting with whom, what?) (How it is being done)
- Asking for directions/ address
- Group discussions
- Purchase/ selling goods/ stuff
- Buying tickets
- Communicating in loud voice
- Traffic police

• Elements, Features and Special Notes


- Address/ location boards
- Seating arena/ benches
- Shops/ kiosks
- Booths
- Traffic police stand
Objects
• These are building blocks of the environment, key
elements sometimes put to complex or unintended
uses (thus changing their function, meaning and
context)

• What are the objects and devices people have in their


environments and how do they relate to their activities?
Objects
• General impressions / Observations Inventory of Key Objects
(What components are involved) (Prepare a list here of ‘THE
- People are using mobile phones - Throw rubbish in Dustbins THINGS’ involved)
- Reading News paper - Drinking water from Bottle and
- Bag / Luggage/ Purse throwing them on road or footpath
- Listening music via Ear phones - Whistle - Mobile
- Wearing Masks to protect themselves - Cap - News paper
- Watch to see timings - Muffler - Bag / Luggage/ Purse
- Ear phones
- Masks
• Elements, Features and Special Notes - Spectacles
(How objects are relating to the activities?) - Watch
- Dustbins
- Mobile: talking, texting, music, using - Bottle
camera to take pic - Whistle
- News paper: reading, crossword - Cap
puzzle, sitting on it - Muffler
- Bag / Luggage/ Purse: safeguard the
bag, sitting on it
- Ear phones
- Masks
- Spectacles
- Watch
Users
• Users are the people whose behaviours,
preferences, and needs are being observed.

• Who is there? What are their roles and


relationships? What are their values and
prejudices?
Users
• General impressions of people Scene of users in context
(Who is present? Roles & responsibilities?)
- Students were waiting for bus, - Housewives: shopping around the
crossing the road, playing around roadside
school on roadside - Traffic Police: controlling traffic
- Employees waiting for bus, talking to - Rickshaw/ Bus Driver: waiting on
each other roadside
- Children were crying, playing - Senior citizens were sitting on
- Male/ Female benches

• Inventory of people
(List of identified people involved)
- Students
- Employees
- Children
- Male/ Female
- Housewives
- Traffic Police
- Rickshaw/ Bus Driver
- Senior citizens
- Hackers
- Vehicle owners
- Beggers

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